Improvement in seeding-machines



D. J. VAIL.

Corn Planter.

Patented July 31, 1860.

N-PETERS, PHOTO UTNO U ITED STATES PATENT -O FIGE.

DAVID J. VAIL, OF INDUSTRY,ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDlNG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 29,420, dated July 31, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID J. VAIL, of Industry, in the county of McDonough and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Seeding-Machine and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a side view of my invention Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the same; Fig. 3, a front view of the same with one of the seedboxes bisected vertically; Fig. 4, a detached perspective view of the colter, furrow-share, and coverer.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a rectangular frame, on the back part of which the drivers seat B is placed. The back part of the frame A is supported by wheels to a.

In the front part ofthe frame abar, I), is fitted transversely, said bar being allowed to turn freely in the frame, and having the draftpole (3 attached to it at its center.

On the frame A, just in front of the wheels a a, there is a board, 0, placed transversely, and on this board, at each end, there is secured a seed-box, D, and at the inner side of each seed-box there is attached a seat, E, both of which are shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

parts of the slides F. These bars G have holesv made in them, through which pins g pass, said pins, when the bars G are in working order, restingon the front parts of theseats E, through which the bars pass, and serving as fulcra for the bars. The upper ends of the bars G Gare connected by pivots to a bar, H.

To the covers of the seed-boxes D I) bars h row-shares are formed each of two flaring plates projecting from the tubes i, and having their front edges in contact, and rounded vertically and brought to an edge, so as to readily open the furrow. Directly in front of each furrowshare there is a colter, J. These colters are simply inclined knives, which project downward and backward from the frame, so that their lower ends are nearly in contact with the fronts of the shares I, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 4.

K K are covering-shares, the frontends of which are attached to the upper parts of the colters J, said shares extending back, one at each side of the furrow-shares, and curving upward at their back ends, the covering-share of each furrow-share being connected at their back ends, as shown atj, and formed of a sin gle piece of metal, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 4.

The operation is as follows: As the machine is drawn along, the driver on seat B controls the movement of the machine by properly guidiugthedraft-animals,andan attendantisseated astride one of the seats E, and causes the seed to be dropped by operating the bars G. The bars G actuate the slides F, the seed being discharged from the seed-boxes in the same way as the usual perforated'seed-slide devices.- The attendant in dropping the seed ranges or takes sight over the ends of the bar h in front of him, said bar having forked terminals, the seed be ing dropped when the sight or bar lb, bar G, and the rows of previously-planted hills come in line. By this arrangementthe seed will be dropped accurately in check-rows. Two hills may be dropped simultaneously, or one only. It only one is required to be dropped, one of the bars G is elevated free from its slide F, and retained in such position by placing its pin g through one of the lower holes. At every bout of the machine at the ends of rows the attendant changes from one seat E to the other, so as always to face the previously-planted hills. The colters J divide all trash, weeds, &c., that may be in their path. The shares I I do claim as new and desire to secure by.

Letters Patent- The arrangement of the curved connected covering-shares K K, furrow-shares I I, tube 'i,

colters J, frame A, seed box D, wheels a a,-

seat B, uprights G Gr, slides F, pins 9, seats E, and bar H, as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

DAVID J. VAIL.

YVitnesses N. H. PEARCE, EDWARD A. FLoYD. 

